Doors and chainsaws

Right, so I don't nag and I don't talk that much! Honest!

Sure Hubby would tell it differently but he is far too busy playing with his man toys, and he can't hear me now either!

Hopefully we will have a couple of doors and maybe a mantle shelf by the end of the day, all thanks to my lovely Brother-in-law. Doors that are on the right way around too - for some reason the doors in this house all seem to be hung from the wrong side of the frame. Ok so they are right for the light switches but they all open into the middle of the rooms instead of against a wall so it limits you as to where you can put your furniture, most odd but then we do think this house was built on a friday afternoon!

Look what I got from the supermarket - Missy in a bag! Her green credentials aren't very good - she only likes the plastic ones.

Take care all, til tomorrow x

Sheriffs and washing lines

What a glorious morning it is today. Pretty windy but even that isn't too cold. Makes me wish I had a washing line again, I'd go and find a load of washing to do just to get it out to dry! You see I keep losing the washing line, not through carelessness (I am forgetful but not that bad!) but due to us changing where we are putting things in the garden! First it was the hen house that we built and now we have planted apple trees in the way! Note to oneself - next garden job will be to sink another hole for the clothes line!

Found these daffodils out on my walk this morning, just like the snowdrops the other day these seem to have magically appeared along the side of the path through the woods.

There are a few branches of the trees that blown down through the woodland walk so I expect the path will move over the next few weeks back to where it was last year, which is the same reason it moved in the first place!

The new fence is coming along nicely, not finished yet so no clues as to what may be going to reside in the paddock yet. I've never seen such shiney new barbed wire though!

I met the High Sheriff of Bedford (not Nottingham as I was busy telling Hubby when I first got home! due to lack of food and tiredness you see!) yesterday, he seems a jolly nice gentleman. Do you think there would be a Low Sheriff? Maybe you have to work your way up from Low to Middle and then on to High? Maybe I should do a little research.......

Well I am off to go and get food again today - I'm not cooking it this time - we're off to Hubby's folks for lunch and I know that will be a feast!

Take care all, Sarah xx

Kill or cure dieting

Baking and chocolate, biscuits, cookies, sugar and butter, trays and trays of lovely goodies and I think I have found the perfect way to diet! Now this may sound odd but after doing so much baking, the last thing I feel like doing is eating any of the biscuits! Not a problem for chief taster Hubby, all the more for him (after we have been to market of course!) I did still feel the need to try a new bag of crisps with my lunch but give me time, I'll figure out how to make them next week and that will stop me eating those too!

The sun this morning is glorious. I noticed it shining through the tree (I think it is a Forsythia, query spelling, but really can't remember, its not one we planted!) lighting up the leaves as if from the inside and had to go and fetch the camera. With frozen fingers and noisy chickens I managed to get a couple of pictures for you.

My it is cold! Spring has sprung and we are plunged back into a reminder that winter doesn't want to be letting go just yet. It does make for beautiful viewing though.

Back to the kitchen for one last bake off and then onto the sewing machine to finish off the oaty wash bags, I may tell you about them later if I remember!

Take care all

Sarah x

Spring!

Smelt like spring this morning out with George across the fields, can't describe in words exactly what I mean, but if you smelt it you would know too. This is the Buttercup Field, very aptly named once the buttercups are in bloom! Will take a picture when they are in flower later in the year. The black and white streak in the middle is George fetching his ball!

Well I finished my first bag, I am really pleased with it, not bad for leftover fabric is it! My tub of off cuts was getting rather large so I thought I had better learn some new things to do with them.

I'm currently very busy baking for this weekends events, have got a local produce and Fair Trade show in Biggleswade where I shall be selling my biscuits and baked goodies and a spring fair in Hitchin where I shall have all the usual Land Cuckoo handmade gifts, details are on the Land Cuckoo website. I am splitting myself if two for a bit but I did want to support both events, thank goodness for parents and Hubby, they are all helping out this weekend!

So once again I am leaving you to go and sort out food, only this time it is not for me to eat but for others to hopefully buy!

Take care all, til tomorrow

Sarah x

Pooh Sticks

OK so not a great topic of conversation really and I don't want to run the risk of sounding like a grumpy old woman so I wont trouble you with my thoughts whilst out walking this morning on the above mentioned subject! By the way I am talking of the Forestry Commission approved method of disposing of your dogs doings rather than the game invented by a slightly overweight bear who rather likes honey!

So a new fence is being put up today around a paddock that looks like it has been planted with grass. Will wait and see what appears there, maybe the sheep from the cow field? Although probably not as the cow field is only next door.

Looks like both George and I need to go shopping. He is running out of tennis balls and we can't find any of the solid rubber ones he likes, tennis balls just get worn out too quickly. Meanwhile I just keep my fingers crossed that we don't get too wet as my boots have two holes in each foot!

George took his first dip of the year in the stream this morning. He hasn't jumped in there since last year when, after a heavy rainfall he got rather a shock upon finding it was up to ears deep! At least the tennis balls float, there are 3 blue rubber balls buried in the mud at the bottom here as he doesn't understand that they sink if you let go of them which means you may have to put your nose under the water to retrieve them. You see retriver is not in his job description so no need to do that job!

And now for once I am not off on the hunt for food at the end of the blog! I am off to work, well maybe just a cuppa..........

Take care all

Sarah x

Cycling makes you hungry

Went for another cycle around the world this morning, well it was definately Wales at one point I recognised the road markings! What am I talking about you are probably wondering -there is an excercise class at the gym in which you use those static excercise bikes and follow a route which is shown on the big screen. Some of it is computer simulated (I wish the burn in my legs was too) but other routes are taken from a camera which has been straped to a real cyclist and it is effectively what they see whilst they are cycling. Why don't I get out on a real bike then? Because following the courier cyclists through the London and New York streets is brilliant, peddling towards trucks and people and up the wrong way on the road and you wouldn't catch me doing that for real in a million years! Plus there is no danger of me falling off or hitting the kerb!

Then I had a lovely day with Maggie, lots of sewing and plenty of inspiration. Got a new project on the go now - a red, white and blue bag. Well it is not in the least bit like a bag yet but the plan is by the end of Thursday it will be well on its way.

Maggie has been very busy getting ready for the next quilting show at Chilford on the 13th - 15th March and she has some delightful fabrics and packages of goodies. These are some of her parcels of loveliness above and below.

The Sunflower Fabrics website has more of these and also some absolutely georgeous fabrics. Maggie is a genius at producing wonderful collections. The next one I am after will probably be this one called Brighton, just give me an ice cream, I am at the seaside!

OK thats all from me for today, got to go and see if there is anything to eat. Am thinking that is how I end my blog a lot of the time, I can always eat!

Take care all

Sarah x

Let sleeping dogs and cats and husbands lie

Thank you Karon at Dream Acres she has given me a mention on her blog along with some other lovely bloggers. Do go and have a look, I shall keep you posted too as she is putting the finishing touches to a new website which will contain her beautiful handmade products.

The quilt is finished! I finished it off last night whilst catching up on the Masterchef finals. Not sure what I am more amazed at - me finishing a project or the fabulous and amazingly complicated food they were cooking on masterchef!

Who would have thought it could be so difficult to photograph a quilt? I have got more used to taking the photos for the website but this threw me. I just couldn't seem to get it to look right no matter where I placed it! But thats not a problem as I am not selling this one, it is going in the snug for the cold evenings.

Whilst out on our walk this morning we managed to catch up with the little white pony, first time in ages he has been over our side of the paddock.

It wont be long before the cow parsley has grown up through the woodland walk again, last year it was so overgrown you couldn't see the dog, it could even disappear a small child! Found these snowdrops which seem to have appeared in the past couple of days, thought I had better get a photo before they become lost.

Few more products to add to the website, today it is the turn of the handwritten signs. Well I am now the only one in this house awake! Hubby is allowed as he was working nights last night, but who can I hear snoring? its Missy, the small dainty little cat she is and I can hear her two rooms away!

Take care, sleep well!

Sarah x